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best board for athlon xp

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t4t3r

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i am planning on getting an Athlon XP 1600+. of course i need to get a mobo to accompany it, but i can't decide which would be the best for me. i want a very fast board with high stability and your basic features. not planning on scsi, raid, or anything like that. i would like to overclock it eventually, once it is running perfectly. been looking at epox, abit, msi, shuttle, etc. but i still can't decide. please help...???
 
'Very fast' and 'high stability.' Sounds like trouble... 🙂

Personally, I'm leaning towards getting (yet another) ASUS board when I upgrade in a couple weeks' time, because I have had very good experiences with their mainboards. (I'm waiting for the KT266A boards to have been released for a month or so, then make up my mind which one to get.) Understand that the if you're willing to 'experiment,' you should probably expect to run into trouble with any brand or model mainboard. Also, you should take into consideration that on these forums, you're not going to hear the success stories. There are only few people who dedicate a thread to the fact that their mainboard runs flawlessly. (Many people, myself included, think it's no fun building a computer from the ground up and not getting to solve at least a few problems... 🙂)

Anyway... if you want to avoid the really bad ones (if there are any...), don't buy a mainboard that has just been released and that you know nothing about. Instead, wait for the reviews or personal stories, and find out in particular about the features that you're looking to utilise. The only drawback to that is that by the time you've made up your mind, you hear about another board coming out and you don't want to buy an 'old' one... 🙂
 
i have been looking at the shuttle ak31a and the the epox 8kha boards mostly. i am looking for something not too expensive (shuttle falls into that category, but not the epox). asus is too expensive so i can't go with them. it doesn't have to be blazingly fast, but i would like it to handle most of the hardware i throw at it. the shuttle board seems easy to overclock, but so does the epox. im not that worried about overclocking as much as i am with stability. the shuttle seems to also bench better in the reviews ive read. so those are my main choices right now. any other recommendations?? (remember: close to $100, good stability, etc.) thanks
 
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